Një sërë përpjekjesh studimore janë rrekur të përvijojnë joshjen që paraqet arkivi, jo vetëm nga ana e përmbajtjes, por edhe si formë (an)estetike, për modernizmin (dhe post-modernizmin). Megjithatë, derimë tani, përpjekjet për të kuptuar saktësisht marrëdhënien midis realizmit socialist dhe arkivit…

The present paper devotes some space to the period forerunning Gjergj Kastrioti's war and the following centuries, a very much discussed event among the local and foreign scholars. The quarrel between the Arbanense bishopric and the bishopric of Lezha (Alexiense-Lexiensi) about the appurtenance of a…

An adequate correlation between the historic and archaeological sources would help us to obtain new data about Scanderbeg epopee.This thing requires archaeological research in castles, fortresses or other structures, that chronologically refer to the period taken into examination. As it is only a 25…

Every anniversary of events or of big national personalities is always a good impetus to further reflect and deepen more in their study, to extract new point-of views in their less illuminated sides.The 550 anniversary of Gjergj Kastrioti's death is such a great motive. Scanderbeg's war against the …

If the history of a particular figure is not recounted across multiple languages, then that figure is destined to remain obscure beyond the geographical boundaries of his or her own ethnic group. In 1968, at the Second Albannological Conference dedicated to George Castriot Scanderbeg, on the 500th a…

The present paper informs about two monographs on Scanderbeg, which belong to the German historiography. The first monograph is titled Georg Skanderbeg, glücklicher Vorgänger des Ali Pascha in Janina (Gjergj Scanderbeg lucky predecessor of Ali Pasha of Ioannina), and the second monograph is titled G…

The relations of King Alfonso V of Aragon and I of Naples with the Albania of Skanderbeg during the last part of his reign, in the forties and fifties of the fifteenth century, cannot be understood regardless of what has been called in historiography for more than a century his "Eastern policy". Thi…

The works of one of the best Serbian playwrights, Jovan Sterija Popović (1806-1856) about the Albanian hero George Castriot Skanderbeg (1405-1468) merit much greater consideration than what they have so far received from Southern Slav scholars.Sterija is generally considered to be the founder of Ser…

"The use and mеаning of ethnonyms in late medieval texts is a complex scholarly issue. In this paper we try to analyze and clarify the reasons why the mentioned ancient/archaic ethnonyms and geographic names are used for naming certain late medieval Balkan inhabitants and territories in the 15th cen…

Since decades, most certainly centuries, Albania and France are close to each other and this paper gives us the opportunity to recall the proximity of these two countries. At the end of the 19th century, two of the most important figures of both Greek paleography and Biblical studies, Anthimos Alexo…